Sunday, April 15, 2007

Obituary - period ended 4.15.2007

Obituary/Baker, Laurie//The last Quaker in India/Hindu//India/Asia/14-Apr-07//In fact, the Quaker connection to this country long predates Gandhi. As related by Marjorie Sykes in her book An Indian Tapestry, the first Quaker came to ...

Obituary/Baker, Laurie//India's maestro of mud and coconut thatch/Asia Times Online/Bejing/China/Asia/12-Apr-07//Born Laurence Wilfred Baker to Quaker parents in Birmingham, England in 1917, Baker served in an ambulance unit at the start of World War II, and later as a ...

Obituary////Laurie Baker, 90; built homes for India's poor/Los Angeles Times/Los Angeles/CA/USA/11-Apr-07//A Quaker and conscientious objector in World War II, he worked with a medical team in China and Burma. A chance encounter with Mohandas K. Gandhi on his way ...

Obituary////Baez was father of folk singers/Denver Post/Denver/CO/USA/23-Mar-07/AP/A Quaker, Baez was an active supporter of Bread & Roses, a nonprofit that brings free live entertainment to hospitals, prisons and other institutions. ...

Obituary/Pacifism//Albert V. Baez, 94; physicist and father of Joan Baez, Mimi Farina/Los Angeles Times/Los Angeles/CA/USA/23-Mar-07//Joan Baez admired her father — a Quaker and pacifist — for valuing teaching and turning away from potentially lucrative defense work.

"We would never have all the fine and useless things little girls want …. Instead we would have a father with a clear conscience," she recalled in her memoir. "Decency would be his legacy to us.". ...

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